Taric vs Olaf
How to Beat Olaf as Taric
based on 342 Taric vs Olaf matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Taric vs Olaf Matchup Summary
Best Taric vs Olaf Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Olaf as Taric
Tips for Playing as Taric against Olaf
The cooldown reducing component of Bravado makes Cooldown Reduction items like Frozen Heart, Iceborn Gauntlet, and Spirit Visage exceptionally powerful on Taric.
Using Starlight's Touch at lower charges makes its healing less Mana efficient, but can greatly increase Taric's sustained damage via Bravado.
Rather than saving Cosmic Radiance for the last moment and risking someone dying during the delay, it can be more beneficial to cast it as soon as you know a teamfight is guaranteed to start.
Advice to Win Against Olaf
Olaf has reduced defenses from damage during Ragnarok, despite being immune to disables. If you can't escape from Olaf during Ragnarok, try focusing your damage on him with your teammates.
Olaf becomes more dangerous the lower life he is. Save your disables to finish him off.
Preventing Olaf from reaching his axe will minimize the amount of harassment he can cause in the laning phase.
Taric vs Olaf Counter Stats
How to Counter Olaf with Taric in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page emphasize some valuable Taric against Olaf matchup statistics that may help you figure out the differences between these two champions. For instance, Taric’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Olaf’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Taric may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Olaf. This observation is largely fueled by the differences in assists.
Taric typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he takes less damage than Olaf. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Taric and Olaf
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Who is Better, Taric or Olaf?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Taric usually wins when taking on Olaf, with a 52.9% win rate. Therefore, Taric makes a good counter for Olaf.
While Taric does have a higher winrate than Olaf, when facing one another, Taric also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Taric into Olaf.
Furthermore, Taric also has a very large amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Olaf. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Taric vs Olaf matchups, Taric is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Taric is an above average counter to Olaf. Focus your play on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Taric against Olaf.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Taric to counter Olaf during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed here, you will increase your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Taric typically racks up a lot less CS as Olaf. Champions who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the numbers reported here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Taric versus Olaf build include Knight's Vow, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Solstice Sleigh. When Taric included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better versus Olaf than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Taric had an average win rate of 52.9% when playing against Olaf with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of defeating Olaf as Taric, you should use the Glacial Augment, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Conditioning, and Revitalize runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Taric vs Olaf counterpicks, this blending of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 52.9% winrate overall.
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